TOM EATON: Do the golf and recycle the myths, winter 2024 is coming
Next year will be a year of terrified paralysis in the ANC as its leaders count the lifeboats and sell the seats in them
10 January 2023 - 05:00
Friday’s “Presidential Golf Day” in Bloemfontein, held as part of the ANC’s 111th birthday orgy, has been condemned as tone-deaf and dangerous. But in its defence, it was a pretty perfect metaphor: golf, after all, is a game in which wealthy people try very hard to be below average before ending up exactly where they started.
Some critics worried that the day’s pay-for-play format, whereby donors could secure a four-ball with Cyril Ramaphosa for a fee of R350,000, stank of potential impropriety...
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